Word: 1970s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When government funds were sharply cut back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, requiring the GSAS to cut student enrollment, many faculty were simply "out of the habit" of conducting sections and tutorials, as Kiely points...
...recapture our national innocence. It is clear that voters are tired of the traditional practitioners of "politics as usual." What is not yet fully perceived, however, is the need for new solutions to the problems of dwindling resources and deteriorating environment that will become more acute in the 1970s...
...jumped to some $35,500, and mortgage rates now hover near 10%. Construction workers, from carpenters to lumberjacks, find that jobs are becoming scarcer every day. The situation is acute in what was one of the fastest-growing counties in the nation during the late 1960s and early 1970s. In New York's exurban Suffolk County, 40% of construction workers...
...lawn, covered with sod grass. It is low-key and perfectly appropriate in its site, harking back to a time when stately homes had garden labyrinths as a matter of course. In sum, the "Monumenta" project discloses a great deal about the survival of public sculpture in the 1970s in something other than its usual urban form-a grandiose ashtray plunked down to decorate a skyscraper's barren forecourt. The Newport exhibition is worth the trip, even though few things in it are quite as aesthetically stirring as a glimpse of Intrepid beating to windward...
Inflation may be becoming to the 1970s what depression was to the 1930s-not only an economic agony but a crisis that threatens the stability of society. Like the Great Depression four decades ago, today's Great Inflation has struck a blow at Americans' usual optimism about the future and replaced it with a deep worry-about whether families will be able to afford travel, comfortable housing, quality education for their children, even the foods they like best...